COLUMBUS, Georgia -- An Alabama man wielding a baseball bat and large knife frightened employees of a Columbus Burger King late Tuesday night causing them to lock the doors and call police.

James Hacking, 43, of Phenix City was in the restaurant’s parking lot yelling at the workers, claiming he was being chased by an invisible mob, the Ledger-Enquirer reported.

The man told police several men were chasing him outside the restaurant at 4312 Veterans Parkway.

"All I saw was a confused man with a baseball bat and a knife yelling at people in Burger King," the officer said, during a Thursday court hearing. "He saw them in front of him, but I didn't see anything."

The man was also seen stumbling through the parking lot of the nearby Sav-A-Lot, according to the Ledger-Enquirer report.

Police later learned Hacking took an unknown amount of methamphetamine just prior to the episode.

Hacking was charged by Columbus police with being disorderly while intoxicated. A judge sentenced him Thursday to 12 months supervised probation and a $150 fine.